GI & Endoscopy

CPT copyright 2009 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.Differences in coding for screening or diagnostic colonoscopies have been a pressing issue for more than a decade and the new health…

West Penn Hospital's West Penn Bariatric Surgery Center in Pittsburgh was re-accredited by the American College of Surgeons' Bariatric Surgery Center Network. It is the only weight-loss surgery center in the Pittsburgh area to have this recognition, according to a…

Lane Regional Medical Center in Zachary, La., is opening its new $1.1 million Endoscopy Center on the third floor of its Lane Medical Plaza, according to a report in The Advocate.

The Ambulatory Surgery Center Advocacy Committee is applauding the removal of patient co-payments for screening colonoscopies in the health reform bill, according to a release from ASCAC.

Patients with recurrent colon cancer in their liver experienced prolonged survival by nearly three years when liver metastases were treated using radiofrequency ablation, a minimally invasive treatment that applies heat directly in the tumor causing cancer cell death with minimal…

Signature Medical Group, one of the largest physician owned medical practices in the St. Louis area, has added Gateway Gastroenterology, an eight-physician GI practice with two locations in St. Louis, according to a Signature Medical news release.

An experimental vaccine against an abnormal protein found in some tumors has the potential to delay the onset of inflammatory bowel disease and in turn prevent progression to colon cancer, according to a study by researchers at the University of…

Barry Tanner, president and CEO of Physicians Endoscopy, believes ASCs will be net winners under the new health reform law. "We don't know how this new law will mature over the next 5-10 years, but I do believe that ASCs…

Q: What are some of the recent regulatory demands gastroenterologists, their practices and ASCs have seen over the past year? How has this affected the management of these entities?Barry Tanner: Most of the regulatory demands relate predominately to ASCs, but…

The majority of African Americans are unaware they should receive colorectal cancer screening beginning at age 45, five years earlier than the generally recommended age, because of higher incidence and mortality rates among this group, according to a press release…